hearing about this small sh*thole Pokrovsk for a year and a half was one of the saddest things in the history of wars);
When Germany lost the Great War, it had never fought on its own territory and still controlled a large part of France and the Low Countries.
The Germans still collapsed.
Russia is waging an attritional war that favors its inherent strengths, the same way we have waged war for as long as we have been around. If the German army is a scalpel, then the Russian army is a sledgehammer. Blunt, but heavy.
Ukraines army has been purged of blood, and is barely standing on its feet. When they finally crack - the front will move as quickly as 1944-1945.
Already they are deserting faster than they recruit.
We are taking fortresses that stood for three years in three days (Seversk this week).
Ukraine has no strength left to fight - and no money and no amount of weapons or ammunition will fix that. Meanwhile, we got manpower coming out of our ass.
With no mobilization, no kidnapping of people on the streets - we generate 30,000 per month of fresh personnel.
If we did what Ukraine does, we could put an additional 2 million men under arms within 6-12 months.